Daniel Gerroll News

Nicolas Kent will direct the World Premiere of Frank McGuinness' Greta Garbo Came to Donegal which runs from 7 January to the 20 February, with press night on 11January 2010. Design is by Robert Jones with lighting by Matthew Eagland and sound by Tom Lishman.

Additional casting has been announced for the upcoming PBS special AMERICAN MASTERS starring Elizabeth Marvel as Louisa May Alcott. The cast will include Daniel Gerroll as Bronson Alcott and Jane Alexander as Ednah Cheney. The special is entitled 'Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women' and will air on PBS on December 28th at 9:00pm.

The award winning talent on Bay Street's stage continues, as the next production swung into full gear on July 7th with Mercedes Ruehl in the American Premiere of Dinner. In this outrageously funny chiller by Moira Buffini, the climax is one that audiences should be careful not to share with others!

As the end of June approaches, so too does the final curtain on Bay Street's bewitching comedy, Bell, Book and Candle, by John Van Druten. Recently reviewed by the press as 'beautifully cast, marvelously acted, ebulliently directed and stunningly designed...,' this first fully-staged production of Bay Street's Summer 2009 season is a unanimous success.

'Revenge is a dish best served cold,' but at this dinner party it is served frozen. Dinner, an American Premiere written by Moira Buffini, is a wicked satirical comedy, where caustic comments fly like poisonous darts across the dinner table.

As the end of June approaches, so too does the final curtain on Bay Street's bewitching comedy, Bell, Book and Candle, by John Van Druten. Recently reviewed by the press as 'beautifully cast, marvelously acted, ebulliently directed and stunningly designed...,' this first fully-staged production of Bay Street's Summer 2009 season is a unanimous success.

A historic night of musical theatre took place at The Dix Hills Center Performing Arts Center. The 1929 Rodgers & Hart musical Spring Is Here, was revived by Five Towns College Theatre Division students along with a handful of talented Broadway professionals.

This contest has ended!

Bay Street Theatre, a not-for-profit professional regional theatre located in the Hamptons on the Long Wharf in Sag Harbor, recently announced its 2008 Target Mainstage Season. Charles Busch and Julie Halston will star in the revival of Shanghai Moon, by Charles Busch, June 3 - June 29.

The Williamstown Theatre Festival will present a reading of Don Juan in Hell starring Jim Dale, a free event on Monday, July 2 at 7:30 on the Nikos Stage.

The world premiere of Dissonance by Damian Lanigan opens the Nikos Stage on June 27.

Williamstown Theatre Festival announces additional casting and directors for the upcoming season.

Maria Aitken, director of London's Olivier-winning Best New Comedy, will bring an all star ensemble of Broadway actors to the stage of the Laura Pels Theatre on Monday, April 9th at 7pm as The Acting Company presents a benefit staged reading of W. Somerset Maugham's For Services Rendered.

Bay Street Theatre's 2007 Winter Benefit was held at The Rainbow Room at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in Manhattan on Monday, February 26 at 6:30 p.m.

Mia Dillon, Daniel Gerroll, and David Rakoff will read short fiction in Selected Shorts at the Westport Country Playhouse on Tuesday, November 14th at 7:30 PM.

An upcoming staged reading of George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber's 1927 classic The Royal Family has drawn a starry cast that includes Marian Seldes and Mercedes Ruehl

Richard Easton and Neal Huff have joined the starry cast of Crispin Whittell's Darwin in Malibu, which will be presented at the Bay Street Theatre in Sag Harbor, Long Island from August 15th through September 3rd; it will also star Hal Linden and Anna Chlumsky

Hal Linden has been tapped to star as the legendary theorist in Crispin Whittell's Darwin in Malibu, which will be presented at the Bay Street Theatre in Sag Harbor, Long Island from August 15th through September 3rd; the play will also star Anna Chlumsky

Ensemble Studio Theatre bills itself as 'The Major Forum for One-Act Plays in America.' Having not surveyed too many of the minor forums, I can't necessarily second it. But if its 28th Festival of One-Act Plays 'Series C' is any indication, the company can pride itself on presenting intriguing work by artists more than skilled in the craft of one-act playwriting-and even the writing of musicals

The Who's Tommy and plays with Mercedes Ruehl and Kaye Ballard will be part of the Bay Street Theatre's 2006 season